About Craig "hachiroku" Mercer

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We’ve been building our Plarail collection over the last year and we got a big shipment of track sent over for Wyatt’s birthday. Obviously Kana, Yuki and I had to do most of the building since Wyatt is still a little young for three dimensional modelling. I tried to so some different things with the video (e.g.: putting the camera down at track level instead of the usual overhead shots) so this is mostly experimental and will hopefully lead to ever better plarail tracks and videos. So without further ado I give you “Wyatt’s Plarail Party – 2012-JUN-16)

For new people who will be coming
Please bring a bottle of
Single malt scotch to share.
If scotch is not your thing,
Well bring beer or wine and have a good time.

We’ve been unsure what to do with our site ever since we moved back from Japan in the spring of 2007 as the site was totally focused on our life in Japan. We’ve made some minor additions over the past five years but nothing substantial.

Over the past few weeks we decided it that this website is our family scrap book, a time line of important events and as much as Facebook contains a lot of our lives…it doesn’t allow us to present all of the content in the way we want to. So we are REBOOTING and RELAUNCHING our website in WordPress and will be adding content (e.g.: recipes, Kana’s thoughts on homeschooling, family events, Plarail trains etc) regularly. In fact we’ve been adding new content already!

After a long career I retired the LANage website (www.lanage.ca) in October 2012. The domain was up for renewal and I could not think of a compelling reason to keep it up on the internet. However, I figured I should at least keep some of the materials from LANage avaiable to the internet and here is where they are, a tribute to LANage.

Back in 2000, Travis “fustainlach” Simpson, Brian “Kanuck” Howlett and I were roommates and headed up a local area network (LAN) gaming group called LANage. We used to host lan gaming parties where up to 16 folks would come over to the house and we’d game for an entire weekend. The core folks were:

LANage Game Server Setup Guides

LANage Battlefield 1942 Unleashed: Episodes 1 & 2

They were good times indeed and we forged friendships back then that survive to this day. At the height of our LANage days we took to making films of in-game footage. The first one was actually done up by Retardical_Sam (Mike Ward) which inspired yours truly to get into making films which of course has led me to make dozens of short films on everything from Danjiri Matsuri to Plarail. Thanks Mike!

LANage Battlefield 1942 Unleashed: Episode 2 “Jacked Up and Good to Go!”

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LANage Battlefield 1942 Unleashed: Episode 1 “Jeep Jumping”

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Photos from LANage’s goneby

LANage Members (Tobycat, JMan, Kanuck & deJap) with Guests at Travis and Chrissy’s wedding in 2004LANage Members (Castor, Xenocide, Kanuck, fustainlach & deJap) at Gibfest 2001Here I am giving a warm hug to Barry “Viper” Radford who has the unfortunate title of being the only person to bring a virus to a LANage lan. This was back in the days of Win98 and we all had to format our hard drives and rebuild them from scratch. Thanks Viper!